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Another week, another update. The last update of April. Because April is ending soon. This time, we have a few new things! First and foremost are new enchantments and catalysts for them. Every dungeon boss, except the Bandit Leader, now has a unique enchantment type associated with it. That enchantment type cannot be found anywhere else in the game, except by items dropped from that boss, or as catalysts that they drop. The higher level the boss, the higher the chance for the catalyst to drop, as well.

Secondly, the Spatial dungeon boss has gotten a revamp; he has a few new moves that gives him his own identity instead of just being a Jammer Omega clone. You can fight him and all the other bosses in static dungeons now, as well; up to one boss monster will spawn in the static dungeons at a time, and while they don't drop cores, they do drop the new catalysts. Bosses have received an adjustment to the amount of bonus HP they receive; it's less when you're by yourself but more when you're in a full party. Some monsters have also received increased RES gain of varying degrees; we'll see how this shakes out.

1.22
New Enchantments - 9 new enchantments have been added.

• Includes 9 new catalyst items that drop from dungeon bosses (excluding Bandit Leaders).
  
• Some of these enchantments can enchant multiple equipment types.
  
• All of these enchantments are exclusive to a specific boss and cannot be generated except by them.

• Bosses in static dungeons do not drop cores, but can drop the new catalyst items exclusive to them.

• Spatial Corruptor - Reduced VIT growth by 50%. Increased RES growth by 110%. (No that isn't a typo.)
  
• Barghest - Increased RES growth by 50%.
  
• Spectre - Increased RES growth by 20%.
  
• Wings of Fire - Increased RES growth by 30%.
  
• Goblin Shaman - Increased RES growth by 30%.
  
• Vorpal Rabbit - Increased RES growth by 20%.
  
• Ocean Races - Increased RES growth by 10%.

1. Going from 0 HP to a positive HP amount counts as being 'revived'.
   
2. When you are revived, you lose 3 Momentum, as if you had been knocked down. (Skills that ignore knockdown or reduce its Momentum penalty do not take effect; it was just an example.)
   
3. When you are revived, you gain a status called Badly Beaten for 4 rounds, with a starting LV of 1. Badly Beaten causes the Momentum you receive from a new round starting to be reduced by its LV. If you are revived and are already suffering from Badly Beaten, the duration is extended by 4 rounds, and the LV is increased by 1. (Note that status effect duration is reduced even during turns you are incapacitated, so if you get revived, then knocked out again, and 4 turns later you get revived, you will get a 'fresh' Badly Beaten, not a powered-up version.)

Tacked onto the board in Cellsvich, and on a board in the Mage's Guild in Tannis, are two similar, quickly scrawled, posters. The posters advertise a Sushi Shop and a 'Planned Adventures' shop, both appearing to be located in Tannis. Scrawled even more sloppily in the corner of the Sushi Shop poster is, "EAT FUGU AT OWN RISK". Huh.

OOC

Sushi Shop would sell sushi and maybe other fish sometimes.

Planned Adventures would have Tools and traps.

This post is under review. Mods, please check your PMS.

Easy solution to this: Make fountains not solid. This can also happen with other dungeon features like this:



As ugly as it might be to be able to walk through these, if they remain solid, dungeons can be impossible to clear. Or some other solution to this, I dunno.

For the record I found both of these in the same dungeon.

Could we have an addition to the Crafting System where, if you have 100% to craft an item, you can try to craft multiples of that item in one go? (At the potential cost of getting reduced/no exp from it, if need be)

With the new back-attacking bypass for Riposte and Stalemate, can we have it so that Ghosthands no longer null Riposte?

I have a weapon that for some reason lets me upgrade it to 7 and resets every log in.




This has apparently been reported before.

Update: Everything I have can be upgraded 1 more than they are. And the armor sticks through out relogs.

I'm not sure this is intended or not, I just don't see it as 'normal' and it's very disturbing

World Map Battle:

Accellia vs Excel Weapons
- Autohit vs Hit Check
- 75% per charge vs 50% per charge
- No WPN Power vs WPN Power
- Shoe slot vs Weapon slot

Current Formula - 75% per charge
(60*3.75)-10 = 215 damage

Changed Formula - 30% per charge
(60*1.90)-10 = 104 damage

Average strength of 60, average dodger's defense of 10.

There is so much to say about this single item. It became the unnecessary medium that quite literally stomps standard dodgers. I've no clue how it somehow ended with -75%- scaling per charge, but the logic that 'you're using 3M anyway' is a major source of this game's imbalance. Just because someone charges, doesn't mean their momentum has to be (over)compensated for. And it's often we see these type of items (BiS - Best in slot) having zero player input before implementation. Not to completely steer the blame on Dev, because it also seems like most voices are hush-hush about these things. Flipping defense before the scaling will still severely harm standard dodgers, and the new scaling balances the job without butchering the standard formula. As it stands now, there is little to no incentive for a character with decent strength to not wear these. The excel series are items, NOT core skills, and should be treated as options. And again, this is a shoe slot, what exactly should it be compensating for?

I've found out that you can get up on the bushes by using side cut or any other skill that has similar move set (kensei's skill, aligmato, inferno summon).
After you get on the middle part of the bushes, you won't be attacked by the monster (duh) but you still can cast spell. So it's very abuseable.